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< p>[#image: /photos/53db19146dec627b14a18194]||||||< br>< em>< ahref="http://www.mccarran.com/" target="perrin">McCarran International Airport: < u>Not where I'd want to be stranded with two kids. < p>Can any of you clever road warriors advise me whether the following airfare dipsy doodle might work or not? My friend Linda wants to fly with her two kids from < ahref="http://www.concierge.com/destination/washingtondc">Washington, D.C., to < ahref="http://www.concierge.com/destination/sanfrancisco">San Francisco this summer. She writes:< br> < p>< p>"My husband has found one-way fares on < ahref="http://www.united.com/" target="perrin">United from Washington, D.C., to < ahref="http://www.concierge.com/destination/lasvegas">Las Vegas, with a stopover in San Francisco, for $90. I assume we can disembark in San Francisco and skip the SFO-Vegas leg. (I realize it means we couldn't check luggage.) For the return flight to D.C., we would drive to Las Vegas and fly back from there on a separate one-way ticket on United. Do you think it would be safe to book this? I know that if we bought a roundtrip fare and skipped the second leg of the outbound flight, United could cancel our reservations on the return. But this is not a roundtrip fare; we'd be using two separate one-way tickets. Can we safely do this, or could we end up stranded in Vegas?"< p>Great question. I wish I knew the answer. I'd feel better if the one-way tickets were on two different airlines. I'm concerned that, with both one-way tickets in United's computer system, it could raise a red flag, United might cancel the return reservation, and Linda would be stuck in Vegas having to buy astronomically priced last-minute full-fare tickets to get home. Thoughts, anyone?